All posts tagged "protest"

By Kim Bo-eun Lee Ga-hyun, 22, has a burn on her arm, which she sustained while working for a year at a McDonald’s store in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province. Her position was at the grill, which meant she...

By Kim Se-jeong Police in Seoul are seeking to punish Amnesty International Korea for waging an anti-government “ghost rally” using holographic images, the first of its kind in Korea. The international human rights group projected holographic images...

SEOUL (Yonhap) — Tens of thousands of protesters held a massive rally Saturday to protest the government’s move to adopt state history textbooks and push for labor reform and it ended without any clashes with police. The...

On Nov. 14, over 70,000 people openly protested South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s policies on labor reform and rewritten history textbooks in Seoul. Violent clashes erupted, which included police firing tear gas and water cannons...

By Lee Kyung-min Tension is escalating between police and protesters over who should be held accountable for Saturday’s rally that left one protestor unconscious and more than 140 people injured ― 113 police officers and 29 rally...

By The Korea Times Seoul staff South Korea’s rockers, rappers and other media personalities will gather at Hongdae — Seoul’s popular hipster hotspot — to raise their voices against the government’s controversial move to author history textbooks....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police said they were questioning dozens of protesters Sunday over violence that broke out at a rally denouncing the government’s handling of a ferry disaster that killed more than 300...